Up until recently, search results in LinkedIn Recruiter (LIR) and in (any) personal account were the same. LIR provides more results available for viewing for a given search and better results visibility (and also some facets that are not available in a personal search).

This has changed dramatically.

If you have a LinkedIn Recruiter account, you must read on.

Here are three examples of searches, compared side-by-side for a personal vs a LIR…

Yesterday I posted a disturbing article aboutChick-fil-A demoting a breast cancer survivor after she took medical leave for having double mastectomy. That demotion cut her hours which caused her to lose her healthcare coverage.…

I often comment about the reliance recruitment firms have on traditional sourcing strategies, but recently I’ve also noticed that website search engine optimisation (SEO) is also still perceived by a lot of agencies as being the most important form of branding outside of job boards.

I get this, it makes sense to have a high ranking website on Google so that people find you when they type in terms relating to your business. This blog isn’t focused on SEO but just quickly if you are…

We'll make this quick - there's more expo floor and happy hours to see.

Recruiting technology is trying to make recruiters better marketers.

For example, the tools are starting to build automated e-mail follow-ups because…

Don’t complain when you are the cause!!

So once again we will be taking a break from the series on lesser site, however rest assured we will continue it.

I am getting so so tired of all the hiring managers and recruiters complaining  about the supposed lack of talent. …

One of the biggest costs a company can incur is replacing employees or adding new people as the business grows.

While it is exciting to see companies do well, the increase in salaries and other costs associated with new employees can also impact a budget. It is important that the company look for the best ways to find the right employees while staying within…

Technology is becoming increasingly important in healthcare. Electronic health records, payment models, consumer health applications, radiology barcoding applications, patient portals (which are intended to facilitate communication among providers, patients and healthcare organizations), telehealth, wearables, and robotics are just some examples of technological advancements being used by healthcare organizations and patients. IT professionals in healthcare are required to analyze,…

Over the last 20 years, technology has completely changed the recruitment industry, with the introduction of mobile, big data and social media all influencing the way recruitment agencies operate. In fact, the recruitment technology industry is expected to grow to £5 billion by 2015 (Tower Watson, 2013), highlighting how valuable technology has become in recruitment. This article looks at some of the most useful tools and technologies recruiters can access to make their lives…

At Great Rated, we're truly excited to share our recent People's Picks: 20 Great Workplaces in Technology, based entirely on the results of confidential employee surveys. Not only do these companies offer fantastic benefits and opportunities for advancement. They've also created magnetic work cultures within a sector that can be particularly challenging for recruiters because the…

We all hear about how critical it is to make a good first impression. An important study recently showed that first impressions are eerily accurate and frustratingly arbitrary. Rest assured, though, there is hope for the awkward. A 2009 study…

Today we had the great Steve Levy - @LevyRecruits - on The Recruiting Animal Show.

Sometimes it's hard to tell what the show is like while you're doing it but I just listened to half of this one and it was a lot of fun and I didn't even get to what I thought (during the show) was the best part.

Levy…

Like him or not, Bill O’Reilly is one of the most watched commentators in the USA. Credit: Justin Hoch, Wikipedia Commons

Love them or hate them, here is a fact about Fox News that no pundit could dispute: they are killing the competition.

The New York-based, Rupert Murdoch–owned news…

Headhunter is defined as a person who identifies and approaches suitable individuals employed elsewhere to fill an open business position with their client.

When I first got in this business almost 12 years ago, this was a term that I did not like nor did I respect.  It was a term to identify these annoying people that would call me at work/home to…

Titanic is just one example of James Cameron’s message to the world. 

When you think about it, all the big James Cameron movies have the exact same premise.

In all of them, humans are either over-confident or over-enthusiastic about new technology, it is used wrongly and the…

Chennai is one of the vibrant cities not just in South India, but in the country as well with multicultural societies prevalent actively. Perhaps, it is because of this reason that people get to witness vibrant cultural aspects reflecting the diversified living prospects. The land of Cholas is not the same anymore with rapid developments taken…

One thing I learned very early on in my career looking after teams of recruiters is that every single new consultant needs to know that, as their manager, you truly appreciate where they’re sitting in terms of their level of competency.

I also quickly learned that their perceived level of competency then had a direct impact on their actual…

When Neil Armstrong was a kid he dreamed of flying planes because that’s what he knew.

In a week when HR Technology, innovation and change will be actively discusssed at the HR Tech conference in Las Vegas, it has made me think about how recruiters and employers will deliver a vision that is not just based on what we know now, but what we want for…

Citibank Australia increased their customer engagement and loyalty by creating a dining program where they partnered with Fairfax to offer their customers a free bottle of wine when they dined at participating restaurants. Citibank noticed that, regardless of budget, their customers tend to…

Everyone knows the legend of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, immortalized and fictionalized in the film The Social Network.He went from college dropout to multimillionaire in just a few short years.

Jan Koum, CEO of WhatsApp was raised in the Ukraine in a home with no electricity and attended a school that did not have bathrooms.  He signed his recent…

("Part One" briefly outlines some background. If you are only interested in "how-to", please jump to the "Part Two" below.

Please note, that I think that inviting others for no good reason is NOT appropriate.)

Part One. Reasons to Connect

LinkedIn is a business networking site, where people can "connect" with each other. Connecting provides for ways to keep each other's contact info; track interactions; perhaps get on…